A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, Book 1) by James Blish

A quantity of the After Such wisdom trilogy.
A genuinely-earned Hugo award went to this interesting research of where of faith in a destiny star-travelling society. lots of the motion occurs at the newly-discovered planet Lithia, a paradise, idyllic, so like an unsettled Earth, but so various. The protagonist, Father Ruiz-Sanchez, is either a clergyman and a biologist. He grows to believe that Lithia is a catch, a soul-trap, in an effort to bring about the damnation of first the exploring celebration, then the complete human race!

Titans of Chaos completes John Wright's The Chronicles of Chaos. introduced in Orphans of Chaos—a Nebula Award Nominee for most sensible novel in 2006, and a Locus Year's most sensible Novel choose for 2005—and endured in Fugitives of Chaos, the trilogy is ready 5 orphans raised in a strict British boarding institution who chanced on that they're now not human.

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Hounded by means of collectors and heckled by way of an uncooperative robotic, binge-drinking inventor Galloway Gallegher needs to remedy the secret of his personal machines prior to his dodgy financing and reckless way of life meet up with him! this whole choice of Kuttner's 5 vintage "Gallegher" tales provides the writer on the peak of his resourceful genius.

In a global deeply wounded via centuries of environmental harm, not going souls sign up for forces: Dr. Ingrid Seastrom has stumbled right into a secret regarding quantum-entangled nanoscale implants—a secret that simply may well kill her. Whispr is a thief and assassin whose radical physique alterations have left him so skinny he's all yet two-dimensional.

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